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[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Guys he's still around, from time to time. He's probably listening right now

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

If he is, I hope he knows the Fediverse reached out and touched faith...

[–] slowmorella@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 2 months ago

i miss history ruins 😢

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

You had to appreciate him when he was here. He's in a better place now, and you need to carry his torch

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our Piefeds, but in ourselves.

I still check in from time to time, check reports, make sure there's no spam. It's just that... I don't have the energy to move the comms again, and I don't want to put in the effort when the task on the Fediverse seems Sisyphean.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Things I have learned since making the plea above...

  • People can handle a pug as Christ, but not as Superman.
  • Apparently the Fediverse thinks you're both a fascist and a commie. This indicates that you're doing something right.
  • You've been doing this all for us. This is clearly the problem, because we're grumpy ungrateful motherfuckers and keep rolling your boulder back down the hill. The solution? Trebuchets, coupled with a healthy dose of "I don't give a fuck if those mofos don't get out of the way this time".
  • Some people clearly should never own pets.

But despite all the trials, trolls, and tribulations, you answered our call. My faith in Dog is restored.

Also, been following you since the kbin days. You're Fediverse famous now, dawg. That's almost 5% of the way to internet famous, and also means that when you leave, the Fediverse wilts like a first year history major trying to describe French-Indochina in the 50s. Like the Picard Maneuvar and Satan's Maggoty Cumfart, your pugly mug is now one of the faces of this place, and with you gone, we're stuck with maggoty cumfarts and star trek memes.

In other words, Reddit.

So, if your faith in what you post ever gets lost in the trolling, know that for every grumpy asshole, there's a faithful shitposter looking to you for inspiration, or at least directions to a quality copper merchant in ancient Sumeria.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

May many respitorially challenged small dogs bless you, my child! ✋

I actually always felt very appreciated on here by most people! Sadly, it's purely an issue of energy. Rebuilding the audience on comms on another instance just is too much to do a fourth time. I do still wish the Fediverse the best!

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 2 months ago

Spend less time moderating and more time giving us the contex on weird historical facts! I haven't learned anything since you've been absent. You are actively making me dumber by not hanging out anymore.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 7 points 2 months ago

I don’t want to put in the effort when the task on the Fediverse seems Sisyphean.

I definitely relate.

I'm trying to keep things manageable nowadays. A few posts per day, that's it. It makes it easier to handle.

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[–] Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Goodbye Post

Looks like their Piefed instance incorporated a vote limit impacting a users ability to interact with their audience, and the holy one just threw up their hands at the thought of having to migrate due to instance dumbfuckery again.

[–] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

threw up their hands at the thought of having to migrate due to instance dumbfuckery again

that's real as hell. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the fediverse needs a better way for users to move instances. Not being able to do so will make people less likely to do so in case of an 'instance gone bad' (cough elon cough) scenario.

how that happens on the technical side? I have no god damn idea xD

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 77 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What a weird policy decision. I don't think the Fediverse needs artificial scarcity or austerity.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wouldn't agree with it but I see why they do it. If you listen to the instance operators and comm mods talk a big priority is they're trying not to just build another reddit. So occasionally instance devs get these ideas to try and deincentivise some of the toxic patterns reddit encouraged.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 30 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I don't understand. A vote limit? As in a user can't vote more than X amount of times per day or something? If so, how does that impact the ability to interact with their audience?

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The holy one had many followers, and often had more than 250 people to bestow their blessed upvote upon. Pedantry should never get in the way of good works.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh it's the reverse??? A user cannot get more than X amount of votes? Dafak? Now that's crazy.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 11 points 2 months ago

OP isn't correct in this case, I think it's to stay aligned with the tongue in cheek tone of the post.

The voting limit is for votes given, not received.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago
[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

History memes to a large hit, still waiting for the second coming of PugJesus

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago (8 children)
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[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 20 points 2 months ago

You speak of the one who is to bring balance to the fedi.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago

Piefed is built around social credits and a karma system that favors homogenization. Unfortunately all this kind of shit gets really messy at scale. I understand trying to organize the chaos, but I think the thing that works about Lemmy is mainly that it's small, overlooked, and by some good fortune the number of assholes is relatively low in percentage currently. I'm not sure it could ever scale well more than 5x without becoming a cesspool. Until the walls start to implode, keeping it simple and open is for the best. Piefed is chasing it's tail.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Meh...

At first i was pleased to see the content. Plenty of cool pics of old things.

A lot of it was just reposting low effort memes, which is not at all a problem, it's just no great loss.

But the more i interacted with them, the more i saw long waffly comments without a firm point. Or saw them arguing in favour of common misconceptions, or in favour of outdated "heirarchies are a good thing" understandings of history, or in favour of arguments that more recent research casts a lot of doubt on.

What's the legacy of a profilic poster of middling content? Prolific is good, fediverse needs content. But the content itself was no great loss.

[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Have you ever met a pug? They're ALL like that. Try arguing philosophy with one - you'll end up with piss all over your shoes.

But I ask you this, how many pugs post historical content in meme format?

We only know of one, a most extraordinary one, one who only wanted to upvote more.

Now, because of Piefed's pedantry, Dog has abandoned us, and you're saying good riddance because he got some mud on the carpet once. Shame on you, sir. I hope you have the wisdom to never own pets.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How many dogs have anti-communist brainworms that make them constantly punch left? I can get along fine with just about anyone, dog, human, etc so long as they're not demanding I share their exact perspective on every country in the world and denouncing me as a fascist otherwise. Actual dogs make for much more pleasant conversational partners in my experience, though trying to reason with either is equally unproductive.

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 10 points 2 months ago

A lot of it was just reposting low effort memes, which is not at all a problem, it’s just no great loss.

Piefed/Lemmy is my main social media. So I didn't see those memes on insta or r$ddit or facebook etc, I only saw them here. So to me, it is indeed a great loss because now I don't see them at all.

the more i interacted with them

Yeah, I agree that PJ got in arguments that left me thinking: Why? But everyone on the fediverse is a little eccentric, and he is definitely one of us.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

They'd post a lot of pretty lazy rightwing history memes, and are a pretty ardant anticommunist (buts par for the course in the anglosphere)

but also whatever they're just some guy, no strong feelings, there's more important things to worry about

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

They’d post a lot of pretty lazy rightwing history memes,

Lazy, sure. Right-wing?

and are a pretty ardant anticommunist (buts par for the course in the anglosphere)

Sorry for being more aligned with Marx than Stalin?

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

But the more i interacted with them, the more i saw long waffly comments without a firm point.

I've been accused of many things over the years, but this is probably the first time I've been accused of waffling.

Or saw them arguing in favour of common misconceptions, or in favour of outdated “heirarchies are a good thing” understandings of history, or in favour of arguments that more recent research casts a lot of doubt on.

lmao what

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong. They are a fine human with a long track record of quality, intelligent content and discourse. Rethink your position, human.

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Funding cuts. He probably got retasked to Bluesky or something.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Your Holy One was the guy who spammed like 200 low effort memes a day and banned people he disagreed with? Okay...

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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